# Game of the States
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 18, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793 "2005-10-18T19:27:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/1 "2005-10-18T19:27:46Z")
In the spirit of other games posted here I offer [this](http://http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html) .
I got 80% a litle while ago.
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/2 "2005-10-18T19:34:25Z")
[fixed](http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html)
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/3 "2005-10-18T19:34:35Z")
Fixed link
This game has appeared here before - I lost my patience with it far too quickly!
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### Author:  [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/4 "2005-10-18T19:43:47Z")
94%
Avg. Error: 6 miles
The problems come when you get a bunch of midwestern and Rocky Mountain states early in the game.
My biggest errors came when I got Nebraska and Kentucky ealry on before having any points of reference nearby.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/5 "2005-10-18T19:47:24Z")
88%, 20 mile average error
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/6 "2005-10-18T19:58:02Z")
86%
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/7 "2005-10-18T20:00:01Z")
100% with 0 mile error, 333 seconds, while taking a phone call and writing notes.
Nebraska was 3rd in my line-up, but I eyeballed it pretty well, that was the only time I was sweating it.
I love geography, and I ate this stuff up when it was drilled into my memory in the 6th grade, where we were tested every Friday morning…names and capitals of each state along with the Pledge of Allegiance, hand written, all 31 words, properly spelled and capitalized and in order.
I work with developmentally disabled clients and we have a games/music room that has a puzzle of the states. Just for fun, I turn my back to the client or employee, and ask a client to pick a state from the puzzle and put it my hand without me looking at it. I will feel it in my hand and within a second or two, I will tell them the state and capital. Some of them were just awestruck, and there will be an occasional smartass that will try the old Colorado/Wyoming mixup to throw me off, but I can even tell the difference between those two.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/8 "2005-10-18T20:06:38Z")
94% - 13 miles average error. Wyoming came up second (after Connecticut) nad got me by a bunch.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/9 "2005-10-18T20:13:25Z")
94% - 4 miles error - 216 seconds. Would have done better if the first two states were both inland.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/10 "2005-10-18T20:18:37Z")
66%- Avg Error: 78 miles- 221 seconds
☹
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### Author:  [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/11 "2005-10-18T20:23:05Z")
98% 20 mile error rate. I can find my way home! WOOHOO!
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/12 "2005-10-18T20:29:31Z")
88%, average erroe 12 miles, 188 seconds.
I got hawaii and maine as my first two…then nebraksa, colorado, iowa, and west virginia. Apparantly, I think w.virginia is where kentuky is. :smack:
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/13 "2005-10-18T20:34:08Z")
Very bad: 90% 24 miles and 711 seconds.
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### Author:  [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/14 "2005-10-18T21:21:43Z")
I managed to get Alaska wrong by being too impatient and just winging it over to the space for it. I mean, come on.
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### Author:  [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/15 "2005-10-18T21:38:12Z")
92%
21 miles
209 seconds
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/16 "2005-10-18T21:44:32Z")
96%, don’t remember the rest.
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> 66%- Avg Error: 78 miles- 221 seconds
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> ☹
Are you an American expat? I certainly couldn’t do anywhere near that well with provinces of China.
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### Author:  [@PinkMarabou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkMarabou)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/17 "2005-10-18T21:46:25Z")
90%, 24 miles average error, 295 seconds. Not too bad for never taking a geography class.
😃
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### Author:  [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/18 "2005-10-18T22:03:53Z")
All I’ve got to say is: screw you Wyoming.
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### Author:  [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/19 "2005-10-18T22:04:48Z")
92%, 19 miles average error.
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### Author:  [@Waterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waterman)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-of-the-states/326793/20 "2005-10-18T22:34:39Z")
94% - 7 miles - 124 seconds
Third state I got was Idaho and mislocated it by 120 miles, next was Ohio and mislocated it by 150 miles, and the fifth was Colorado and mislocated by 80 miles. With no reference points those inland states can be tough!
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